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lanceolate, closely adpressed to the stem, as long as the flower-bracts 

 and hirsute like them. Flower-hracts lanceolate or oblanceolate, taper- 

 ing to each end, '25 to "3 in. long. Flowers 1 to 3, sessile. Galyx '2 in. 

 long, cleft to the base into 4 lanceolate acuminate hirsute lobes. Corolla 

 shorter than the calyx, narrowly campanulate, with 4 short lobes, dense- 

 ly hirsute outside, but glabrous within. Anthers 4, oblong, sessile. 

 Fruit (fide Jack) " ovoid, hairy, dark-blue, pyrenes 4." Wight in Calc. 

 Journ. Nat. Hist. VI. 504 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. TIL 181. Mephitidia 

 attenuata, DC. Prod. lY. 452. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2926. Perak : King's Collector 237, 

 Singapore : Eidley 6517, 6830, 9224. 



Allied to L, appressus. Hook, fil,, but with different pubescence and bracts and 

 rather more nerves in the leaves. 



21. Lasianthus densipolius, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 321. A shrub ; 

 all parts more or less clothed with coarse flexuose pale-olivaceous hairs 

 with bulbous bases. Young branches slightly thicker than a crow- 

 quill. Leaves membranous, nearly sessile, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 

 somewhat oblique and emarginate, but not narrowed at the base, the 

 apex shortly acuminate; both surfaces olivaceous-brown when dry; 

 main-nerves 8 to 10 pairs, ascending, slightly curved, thin but promin- 

 ent on the lower surface, faint on the upper; length 1*75 to 2*75 in.; 

 breadth '6 to '8 in.; petioles under -1 in.; stipules lanceolate, densely 

 hirsute, '25 to '3 in. long. Cymes axillary, sessile, few-flowered, rather 

 more than twice as long as the petioles ; bracts linear, hispid. Floivers 

 few, sessile. Calyx '2 in. long, with 4 or 5 deep very unequal, lanceolate 

 hispid lobes. Corolla much smaller than the calyx with oblong and less 

 hairy lobes. Anthers 5, sessile, oblong, opposite the lobes. Fruit blue, 

 sub-globular, sparsely hispid, surmounted by the calyx-lobes, '2 or '25 

 in. in diam. ; pyrenes 4. Hook, fil, Fl. Br. Ind. III. 182. Lasianthus ? 

 Wall. Cat. 8441 in part. 



This is very closely allied to the Indian species L. Wallichii, Wight. 



Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 868. Johore : King. Singapore : Wal- 

 lich ; Anderson 88 ; Morton 142 ; Ridley 4898, 5679. Selangor : Ridley 

 7421. 



var. latifolia, King. Leaves broadly oblong with a short broad ab- 

 rupt acumen, the base broad, oblique, sub-cordate, and more than 1 in. 

 broad; young branches and inflorescence densely covered with coarse 

 hair, 2*25 in. long. 



Johore: Ridley \094i8, Selangor: Ridley 7 4}23. 



VAR. calycina, King. Leaves glabrous on the upper surface except 



